Muscarium, muscarij. n. g. Mart. A flappe to kill flies.Muscarium herbarum, similitudine quam habet cÛ muscarijs, ab abigendis muscis dicitur. Plin. The cop of fenell, dill, and such other bearbes whereon the seede grow.
Muscárius, pen. cor. Adiectiuum. Perteyning to flies. vt, Araneus muscarius. Plin. A spider that taketh flies.
muscārĭus, a, um, adj. [musca], of or belonging to flies, fly- (post-Aug.). I.Adj.: aranei muscarii tela, i. e.
fly-hunting
, Plin. 29, 6, 38, 131: clavus,
a broad-headed nail
, Vitr. 7, 3, 11.—Hence, II.Subst.: muscā-rĭum, ii, n., a fly-flap, fly-brush, used also as a clothes-brush, made of peacocks' tails, Mart. 14, 67in lemm.; or hairy ox-tails, id. 14, 71in lemm.; or horse-tails, Veg. Vet. 4, 1.—B.Transf.1.The hairy or fibrous part of plants, the umbel: semine in muscariis dependente, Plin. 12, 26, 57, 127.— 2.A closet or safe, in which writings were kept to protect them from the flies, Inscr. Rom. Viagg. a Pompeii, p. 168.